Certhia (serthia)

[NL., formerly also cer thias, certhius (Gesner, 1555), tle bird, the common tree-creeper.] 1. An old Linnean genus of birds, of indefinite charac ter, containing many small slender-billed species later referred to different families and or ders.-2. As now restricted, the typical genus of the small family Certhiida. The type is the common tree-creeper of Europe, Asia, and America, C. familiar is. See creeper, 4 ( a ). Cert hide a (ser-thid'ē-a), n. [NL. (J. Gould, 1837), truth of something; a paper written in order to serve as evidence of a matter of fact. I can bring certificates that I behave myself soberly before company. Add is on . I wrote a simple certificate , explaining who he was and whence he came. B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 28. 2. In a more particular sense, a statement written and signed (usually by some public officer), but not nece arily nor usually sworn to, which is by law made evidence of the truth of the facts stated, for all or for certain purposes. Such are, for example, a certificate of discharge , i ued by a bankruptcy court to show that a bankrupt has been duly released from his debts; a certificate of naturalization , i ued by the proper court to show that the holder has been duly made a citizen; a certificate of registry , i ued by a custom-house collector to show that a ve el has complied with the navigation laws. A certificate is the usual mode of evidencing those acts of ministerial and executive officers which are done for the benefit of particular persons who may desire to po e evidence of them independently of official record. - Allotment certificate. See allotment. Certificate lands, in Pennsylvania, in the period succeeding the revolution, lands set apart in the western portion of the State which might be bought with the certificates which the soldiers of that State in the revolutionary army had received in lieu of pay. Certificate of deposit, a written acknowledgment of a bank that it has received from the person named a sum of money as a deposit. Certificate of origin, a British custom-house document required from importers of cocoa, coffee, spirits, and sugar imported from any British colony, to certify the place of production of the commodity in question.Clearing-house certificate. See clearing -house. - Continuous-service certificate. See continuous. - Gold and silver certificates, certificates i ued by the United States government, circulating as money, on the security of gold deposited with the government for the purpose, or of silver coin belonging to itself. The smallest denomination of the former is twenty dollars, and of the latter one dollar. certificate (ser-tif'i-kāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. certificated, ppr. certificating. [ pa ed an examination; furnish with a certificate: as, to certificate the captain of a ve el. [In this sense used chiefly in the past partici ple.] By the 12th of Queen Anne, it was further enacted, that neither the servants nor apprentices of such certificated man should gain any settlement in the parish where he resided under such certificate. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, I. x. The teacher, a gentleman, was certificated for one of the lower grades. Jour. of Education , XIV. 345. 2. To attest, certify, or vouch for by certificate: as, to certificate a fact.